2 Chronicles 32:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

I and my

Daniel 5:19

Were the gods

General references

2 Kings 19:11

Bible References

I and my

In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglathpileser king of Assyria captured Ijon and Abelbethmaacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali. He took the people captive to Assyria.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the land and advanced to Samaria. He besieged the city for three years.

You heard what the kings of Assyria did to all countries. They totally destroyed them. Will you be rescued?

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them? And what about the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

The king spoke: Is this not great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

Because of the greatness he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he chose he killed and whom he chose he kept alive. Whom he chose he raised up, and whom he chose he put down.

Were the gods

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of the hands of man.

Did the gods of other nations save their countries from the king of Assyria?

They threw the gods from these countries into fires because these gods are not real gods. They are only wooden and stone statues made by human hands. So the Assyrians have destroyed them.

Our God is in heaven. He does whatever he pleases.

Do not tremble. Do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses! Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock. There is not one!'

You will say to the idolaters: The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.

You see and hear that Paul, in Ephesus and throughout all Asia, has persuaded and turned away many people. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

General references

You heard what the kings of Assyria did to all countries. They totally destroyed them. Will you be rescued?